#personality

My biggest insecurity is that my personality is too much, and as I get older, it's just getting bigger. ↗

— Angie Harmon

#biggest #get #getting #i #insecurity

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait. ↗

— Chris Hemsworth

#cleaning #cured #get #house #i

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize—too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries. ↗

— Kate Zambreno

#women-writers #men

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there. ↗

— Elsie de Wolfe

#find #forever #guests #happiness #home

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality. ↗

— Edward Albee

#character #every #extension #know #material

In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program. ↗

— Poul Anderson

#basic #become #course #download #harvest

The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably. ↗

— John Badham

#bad #considerably #diminished #enough #free

At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality. ↗

— Princess Masako

#between #experience #find #hardship #i

Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality. ↗

— Earl Butz

#had #kind #loner #nixon #personality

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality. ↗

— Sandra Brown

#came #careers #cosmetics #did #i